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In the past four years, about 400 students from Fangcaodi International School have traveled abroad and more than 3,000 others had contact with foreign peers, says Yang Yuan, a teacher at the school. "Our children have shown strong interest in knowing more about the rest of the world."
BEIJING,doudoune moncler, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Xiao Wu, now a student at Oxford University, recalls her life in Britain started off with "depression" six years ago in a renowned board school.Their favorite foods, clothes and pop stars and cartoon characters can come from any corner of the world, and many of them start to speak English at kindergarten, she says. "That may explain how they develop familiarity.
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"The media, especially the Internet,abercrombie and fitch, have presented children all over the world with a colorful global village, and brought them closer," she says. "As long as you want to know, the information is at your fingertips."
Shi Junhao, 10, a fifth-grader at Beijing Fangcaodi International School, has just finished a six-week school trip to the U.K. with eight other students.
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"We are both veteran players of Popcart (a popular racing game designed in South Korea), fans of NEWS (a Japanese boy band),abercrombie and fitch, and lovers of literature," she says. "Although I had not fully mastered Japanese,moncler, we hit it off at our first meeting."
Respect for other cultures and smashing stereotypes are crucial steps for nurturing open minds in children, says Professor Shi Jinghuan.
"For toddlers, smiles and eye contact are enough to initiate friendship," says Cindy Li, a teacher at the SMIC School and Kindergarten in Shanghai,piumini moncler, which has 1,800 students from 22 countries and regions, and about 100 foreign teachers.
"Children should know that being different isn't bad."
Understanding, respect and tolerance can cement friendships between children from all ethnic groups, says Shi.
One year later, Ding called on Ayumi Saito in Japan's Toyama Prefecture. Before her trip, Ding had glimpsed Japanese pop culture and customs through her Japanese teacher,moncler pas cher, Matsushita Hiroshi, and on the Internet.
Ding Kaiyan, 15, recalls making friends with Ayumi Saito during the latter's school excursion in China in August, 2008.
"I was disappointed to find many of my British classmates just spent plenty of time on parties,louboutin, instead of study," Xiao Wu says, a straight-A student in China,louboutin, who struck her teachers and peers as "extraordinarily diligent."
He made friends with Oliver after establishing that they shared a lot in common. "We were partners on the basketball court, and we both like U.S. President Obama," he says.
It has taken her long to come to terms with the fact that British students just could be academically excellent as well without "excess hardworking" that was often held dear by their Chinese peers, she says.
Ding is one of dozens of students at the Northeast Yucai School, in the northeastern Liaoning Province, who have traveled to Japan to meet children their own age over the past six years.
But for younger Chinese, such culture shock is much less likely as they increasingly share a common international culture and make friends abroad.
"Globalization is a buzzword for scholars, but for children it just means how they live their lives," said Professor Shi Jinghuan, executive dean of the Institute of Education of the Tsinghua University.
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